Galician


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a language spoken in Galicia in northwestern Spain

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Symbiosis and Ambivalence: Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town, by Rosa Lehmann.
In 1858 Castro married the historian Manuel Murguia (1833-1923), a champion of the Galician Renaissance.
This brief sketch on the general Austrian and the special Galician context of the law of 1877 would not be complete without touching on the Galician (Bukowenian) "alcohol culture," or better, "spirits culture." Unlike the rest of Zisleithanien (Galicia and Bukowina comprised one-third of its area), Galicia and Bukowina were spirits countries.
While KuzmanyAEs first impression of the Galician town of Brody (Ukraine) was that of a predominant atmosphere of being lost in time and hopelessly marginalized, after a search through thousands of archival files, trade statistics, notes in contemporary publications and periodicals, legal regulations, ordinances, and memoirs, he realized that his approach was not akin to a postmortem examination.
Irish Writers Translate Galician Poetry, a bilingual (galego [Galician]--English/Irish) volume, published by Salmon Poetry in Ireland and which, as Palacios states in her introduction, "served as a guide" (2012, 13) in producing Forked Tongues.
As well as there being many more active speakers of Welsh than Cornish or Galician, the Welsh language publishing industry is bigger, more popular and has a much bigger turnover.
The first two dealt with earlier periods of Galician literatura, and this one spans right up to the present.
GALICIAN (Mark Johnston) MARK JOHNSTON (left) continues in good form and although Galician didn't add to his recent winners, she should be able to make amends from a slightly unfortunate defeat at Ascot last weekend.
This implies that, in the case of the Iberian Peninsula, the conflicts and confrontations existing, for example, in a given social space defined as Catalan or Galician belong to the repertoire level where the use of one language or another would be a component of each repertoire in conflict.
The ancient language and culture of Galicia was recognized by the government of Spain in 1978, and Galician acquired equal status within the province with the official national language, Castillian Spanish.
The Spanish government signed similar agreements for Catalan, Basque and Galician. Co-official status is not enough for many with calls for Catalan, Basque and Galician to become fully official languages in Spain.
The region, perched on Spain's northwest corner, has gained enviable momentum following its path-breaking 1999 Audiovisual Law that ushered in the Galician Audiovisual Consortium and the 52-company Galician Audiovisual Cluster in 2003, and now a new venture-capital firm, SempreCinema.
Xose Neira Vilas (Gres, Pontevedra 1928) is one of the most recognized and widely read Galician authors of the twentieth century (Galicia is the northwest region of Spain associated with the Celtic culture and regional nationalism).